The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 1159: Each Has His Own Agenda (Part )
“It still has to be reviewed by the Anti-Human Trafficking Committee.”

Franz Eichmann also smiled. He had a relative who wanted to immigrate to the United States, but his family couldn't persuade him, so he was sent back by the Anti-Human Trafficking Committee.

Thanks to the existence of this Anti-Human Trafficking Committee, otherwise the descendants of the Eichmann family would have to go to North America as indentured servants.

Bismarck knew that the foreign minister had made up his mind and did not say much. King William IV of Prussia was a monarch with little decisiveness. He was always in a state of opposition and agreement.

Therefore, it is better to persuade these powerful ministers than to persuade the monarch. Although Prince Shotgun was a bit reckless, his decisive style was more in line with Bismarck's appetite.

In Bismarck's view, Prussia was not completely without a chance of winning. Austria's advantage lay in its huge size, but this was also its weakness.

Moreover, it is not all bad to have the Austrian Empire as a big brother. After all, there are always tall people to hold up the sky when it falls.

Blas Osmeno is the newly appointed Prime Minister of Queen Isabella II of Spain and one of the lovers of her mother Cristina.

Blas Osmeno was born as a banker, and he understood the importance of the Europa Monetary Union. The establishment of the union would greatly promote the development of commerce and the banking industry, and even directly change the rules of the game in the banking industry.

But for a banker with an official position like Blas Osmeno, this was simply pie in the sky.

On the one hand, he can get more investment and form a monopoly in the country, and on the other hand, it makes it easier for him to transfer his property abroad.

"For a better tomorrow for Europe! I firmly support this great decision! Gentlemen! Support the monetary union, your children and grandchildren will be proud of your decision today."

Blas Osmeno's impassioned speech caught everyone off guard. Viscount Stratford and Uvarov both suspected that the former was a stooge hired by the Austrian Empire.

In fact, even Prince Schwarzenberg could not be too sure whether the passionate Spanish ambassador in front of him was a stooge hired by his majesty. After all, his performance was a little too fake.

Some representatives of other small countries were excited, some were influenced by Viscount Stratford and felt uneasy, and some began to care about some technical issues.

However, most people don't care. They have either been included in Austria or have no expectations for their country's future at all.

Mohammed Ali had some special ideas. In his opinion, this so-called monetary union must be very important to Austria.

If it can be utilized, it will definitely be a powerful bargaining chip in negotiations with Austria.

But does Austria's Europa Monetary Union include Egypt? Mohammed Ali is a little unsure.

And if he really used this incident to threaten Austria, would it backfire and end up hurting the cow and angering that unpredictable young man?

In fact, the attitude of the Egyptian government was not important in Franz's plan. They could only choose to accept it or be forced to accept it.

In this panic situation, you can't resist it by playing rogue.
At this time, Old Ali thought of another way out, an opportunity to break free from the control of the Austrian Empire.

That is the Suez Canal Project. Perhaps he could use the Suez Canal Project to win the support of more powers and then occupy more land.

Transjordan was not enough to satisfy Egypt, so he was willing to take a gamble. Since the Austrians could use the opportunity of the peace conference to establish a monetary union for themselves, why couldn't Egypt use this opportunity to announce the Suez Canal plan?

As long as all the great powers get involved, Austria will not be able to dominate alone, and it will be able to use the conflicts between the great powers to benefit itself.

Old Ali knew how dangerous it was to seek the skin of a tiger, so he had to sound out the opinions of all parties in advance and find a good time to act.

In fact, Franz was not surprised by the Egyptian government's double-faced behavior. In fact, this was the effect he wanted. After all, the early days of the canal were a huge pit, and Austria alone could not be asked to fill it.

It was not that the Suez Canal was not attractive enough to Austria, nor that Franz was not determined enough, nor was it the so-called loss aversion psychology that was at work.

In fact, when Franz came to this world, his impression of the governments of most countries was that they were terribly corrupt and even more terribly inefficient.

A good policy that benefits the country and the people is completely distorted when it reaches the grassroots level. The government allocates 100,000 florins, but often less than 5,000 florins reach the hands of refugees.

Franz didn't like to be in the limelight, but the fact was that if he didn't take the lead or send some heavyweights to supervise, his money would be wasted.

So even after ascending the throne, Franz still controlled a large number of companies and institutions.

On the one hand, according to tradition, there would be a very clear distinction between the property of the government and the royal family. On the other hand, Franz needed to leave enough cards for himself.

In fact, even the resources in Franz's hands were often exploited by others. Many people used the name of the royal family to register their property under the royal family in order to evade taxes.

Franz would investigate the whole story and forcibly confiscate the property of those who concealed the truth.

However, this resulted in huge administrative costs and waste of resources, so Franz simply announced a tax on royal property during the war.

If Franz had done this under normal circumstances, he would probably have been strongly opposed within the family. The nobles affected would also be very dissatisfied and might even deliberately cause trouble to oppose the new policy.

However, during the war, and with the notoriety left by Franz's previous actions, few people dared to step forward and take their own lives.

Of course, Franz would not be so ruthless. After collecting these taxes, they would be returned to the royal family members and nobles.

Franz's purpose was never to weaken the royal family and the great nobles; he just didn't want these mechanisms to be exploited.

Franz's tax refund also has another purpose, which is to stimulate consumption. What they get is a special kind of expected banknote, which is valid for only one year and can only be used for consumption.

Franz didn't care whether they spent the money on eating, drinking, whoring, or doing charity, he just wanted them to spend all the money.

Franz's approach was effective, and the city of Vienna was able to regain its former prosperity in a short period of time thanks to the efforts of these guys.

In addition, in order to prepare for this conference, the Austrian government also spent money like crazy, making the scale and luxury of this conference the largest in history.

Representatives of any country could not imagine that this was a country in the midst of a civil war, but this also led to a lot of criticism, saying that the Austrian Empire had reached the highest level of depravity in history.